Wireless signal Booster

AndyWest · 1 Mar 2014

Hi

I have had BT Broadband for quite a few years and it has been fine. We bought some devices to boost the broadband to my kids bedrooms which use the wiring in the house. These worked fine but now we have BT infinity they have stopped working. A friend got them going but they just keep falling over every 5 mins or so causing all internet to stop working. We removed them and everything is now fine except the kids rooms are back to not getting a strong enough signal.

The Router is in my office in an extension and the kids rooms are as far away from the router as you can get. SO is there a reliable way to boost the signal without 'setting things up' on the computer. I have an ethernet wire from my office to one of the kids bedrooms so is there anything i can plug into the end of the ethernet cable to the boost or give out the signal? The kids don't really want to be hard wired but this may be the only way??

Any help appreciated as my wife is getting quite frustrated by this as are my kids.

Thank you

gramps · 2 Mar 2014

Something like THIS?

neil_g · 2 Mar 2014

might be that the BT homehub has automatic wireless channel enabled so its switching to stop interference.

id suspect even with a different booster youd have the same problem. try turning off the auto channel.

AndyWest · 2 Mar 2014

Thats kinda what I have at the moment but the damn things make everything almost shut down. They are the TP-Link ones which came highly recommended.

AndyWest · 2 Mar 2014

neil_g said:
might be that the BT homehub has automatic wireless channel enabled so its switching to stop interference.

id suspect even with a different booster youd have the same problem. try turning off the auto channel.

Thanks but how and where do you do that? I can't see anything on the hub.

4wd · 2 Mar 2014

http://bthomehub.home/ and use the password on the base, if it's like our neighbours which I sometimes have to fix.
I was gobsmacked after setting up port forwarding on it (very complicated compared to my netgear) it updated it's firmware and forgot my changes and reverted to default password!

AndyWest · 2 Mar 2014

4wd said:
http://bthomehub.home/ and use the password on the base, if it's like our neighbours which I sometimes have to fix.
I was gobsmacked after setting up port forwarding on it (very complicated compared to my netgear) it updated it's firmware and forgot my changes and reverted to default password!

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Neilc28 · 2 Mar 2014

I have just purchased some Open-Mesh access points, looks VERY promising but may be overkill for your requirements. Dual SSID's and proper wireless meshing for a ridiculously low price. I'll post a bit of a review once I've got the setup going!